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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Apr-2025 05:08 ET (22-Apr-2025 09:08 GMT/UTC)

Reversing environmental decline: Lessons from African communities

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In rural Africa, where livelihoods are often tied directly to the land, environmental degradation poses a critical threat to both ecosystems and people’s well-being. New research reveals ways to tackle the dual challenges of land degradation and poverty.

Journal: Sustainability Science
Funder: The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Droughts’ impact on pasturelands is measured in order toguide extensive livestock management on Spain’s dehesas

University of Córdoba
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study carried out by IFAPA and the University of Cordoba in the north of the province, using meteorological data and remote sensors, aims to furnish livestock farmers with information to promote more efficient grazing

Journal: Agricultural Water Management

Spirited away: Key protein aids transport within plant cells

Osaka Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team has clarified how in plants the boric acid channels, the conduits for the necessary element boron, are transported to the plasma membrane.

Journal: Journal of Experimental Botany
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, NEXT program

A next-generation catalog of cultivated bananas

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new research paper presents a cutting-edge catalog of banana diversity, utilizing innovative genomic techniques to trace the ancestral origins of various banana cultivars. The study involved collaboration between multiple institutions and includes a comprehensive catalog of cultivated bananas.

Journal: Plants People Planet

Four Harvard research teams receive translational funding to advance climate change tech

Harvard University
Grant and Award Announcement

With funding and support from the Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund, researchers will pursue green jet fuel, cleaner chemicals, sustainable packaging, and carbon storage.

Thermal imaging may help fruits, veggies stay fresher longer

University of Georgia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent University of Georgia review suggests new temperature measuring technologies could make that process much simpler, amid growing agricultural challenges fueled by fluctuating climates.

Journal: Scientia Horticulturae

Surf and Turf: Oregon State researchers to study feeding seaweed to cattle

Oregon State University
Grant and Award Announcement

Oregon State University researchers have received a $1 million grant to study the impact of adding seaweed to the diets of beef cattle as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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